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First went the hand sanitizer, disinfectants and toilet paper. Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off shelves.

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1aJ0O TIL Three cleanup volunteers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant voluntarily suited up in scuba gear and swam into the radioactive water, knowing that they would die as a result, to open a gate valve allowing containmented water to drain out preventing a catastrophic thermal explosion.
jN7DE TIL that opossum’s eat 95% of all ticks they come across — up to 5,000 a year!
5609 TIL that in 2014, The Big Lebowski was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
8akZZ TIL that old physics textbooks are wrong about the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. It wasn't due to resonance, but aeroelastic flutter
y7lJ TIL: that in 2008 PEPSI paid a branding company several hundred million dollars to reimagine their logo. The design document that company drafted later leaked onto the internet.